Boards

My dad kept all his old records at my aunt's house and I got to go through and pick out a fair few today. Most of the albums I picked because i've never heard th ebands before but having the album is a good opportunity to listen to them, regardless of knowing what they sound like. I didn't even get into the box with all the zappa and hendrix, which was a shame, but one day... He had the original gatefold of electric ladyland with all the prostitutes on it. I presume all the others are original pressings cos they're from the time. Gaze at this list:

beatles - I am the walrus 7" single
beatles - let it be
leonard cohen - songs of love and hate
bowie - station to station
bowie - low
bowie - the man who sold the world
bowie - let's dance
beatles - abbey road
bowie - ziggy stardust
bowie = hunky dory
beach boys - LA
bowie - scary monsters
crosby, stills, nash and young - 4 way street
gordon lightfoot - the best of gordon lightfoot (if you could read my mind, ya know, like trigger happy tv)
some terrible looking elton john record i took for the cover
neil young - harvest (gatefold)
jackson browne - for everyman
handel - messaih
record of alec guiness reading TS elliots the wasteland
pink floyd - wish you were here
marvin gaye - lets get it on
john cale - fear
elvis costello - punch the clock
xtc - go 2
beatles - white album
the who - quadrophenia
xtc - drums and wires
can - future days
fairport convention - angel delight
blondie - parallel lines
woodstock soundtrack
the who live at leeds
lou reed - transformer
hendrix in the west live album
bruce springsteen - darkness on the edge of town
ivor cutler - dandruff (fuck, no record in the sleeve. Was really looking forward to this one)
music from singing detective
tom waits - rain dogs

If you haven't listen to White Album, Ziggy Stardust, Fear, Let's Get It On, Rain Dogs and Songs of Love and Hate now is the time

After that...probably be easier to say what to avoid. Costello is a wanker. Wish You Were Here was the best thing Pink Floyd ever did, but the actual album, well, either you can take it or you can't, no great loss if you belong to the latter group. Don't rate rest of Bowie massively, although Low is good.